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Book review: Queen Anti-Prom takes charge Shawn McDaniel is a really cool 14-year-old. He’s smart, funny and has an uncanny ability to remember everything he hears — songs, conversations, bird chirps, TV commercials … everything! If you knew Shawn, you’d probably like him. He might not make it to the popular crowd in high school, but he’d at least be tolerated well by everyone at school.
But Shawn won’t ever be a “normal” kid in school. Shawn has severe cerebral palsy. When he was born, a blood vessel broke in Shawn’s brain, so now he can’t control any of his muscles. He can’t blink, swallow or even look at anything when he wants to. His body is on autopilot. This means that there’s no way for him to communicate to his family that his brain is OK and he understands everything that they say to him. Shawn’s family loves him — especially his dad. Shawn’s dad is in agony over the idea that his son is in pain from the seizures that he has several times each day. He loves Shawn so much that he can’t bear to see him hurting. What Shawn’s dad doesn’t know is that the seizures don’t hurt him. They’re his favorite part of the day! Shawn is desperate to find a way to communicate to his dad that he’s not suffering because he is getting the idea that his dad wants to kill him and put him out if his “misery.” How does someone like Shawn save his own life? Cari Boatright is the teen librarian at Joplin Public Library. 
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